Monday, December 22, 2025

Fabio Miudinho

After seeing the Rodrigo Silvard video from the last post, Instagram then served up another pandeirista named Fabio Miudinho.  I’m not familiar with him or his playing, but I really enjoy his sound which is a mixture of classic language ala Bira Presidente, peppered with flashes of modernity, like the three-note hemiola groupings, the bass sounds slapped with his fingers rather than thumbs, and, of course, the wickedly fast sextuplet fill halfway down page three.

In the video below he's playing with a super popular pagode singer by the name of Ferrugem.






Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Rodrigo Silvard

For as irritating as social media can sometimes be, it really is cool how we can discover musicians from all over the world who we may have never otherwise been aware of.  Recently, pandeirista Rodrigo Silvard started coming up on my feed.  I don’t really know much about his story or who else he works with, but I enjoyed his playing, which is full of interesting new ideas that are easy to apply to other tunes.  I don’t actually know the name of this piece, but the instagram video is below if you’d like to follow along.